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Rise in pollution
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Written on: 10 March 2009 [12:29]
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Sustainability
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registered since: 05.03.2009
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The pollution has raised alarmingly in the city causing many problems,now the big question is what should we do to free the environment from pollution? [This article was edited 1 times, at last 10.03.2009 at 12:29.] |
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Written on: 11 March 2009 [01:21]
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iamian
 
registered since: 23.02.2009
Posts: 110
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pollute less is generally cheaper and easier than active clean up. RE & Efficiency enthusiast
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Written on: 14 July 2009 [15:24]
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lilypotter
registered since: 26.06.2009
Posts: 8
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Planting trees, Urban forestry to clean up the air. and reduce the emissions to see that we do not increase pollution beyond this level |
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Written on: 15 July 2009 [03:58]
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childress
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registered since: 14.08.2007
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The powergeneration plants need to be moved back into the cities -- the electric grid in the US operated at its peak efficiency way back in 1911 or so -- because the power plants were located right next to where the power was needed, so there were not massive drops in the transmission lines. Another reason to move them back into the cities, people do not like to see (or taste/feel) big billowing black clouds from smokestacks, so are more likely to make a fuss. If you combine a sequestering coal plant (such as futuregen) WITH the ability to burn biomass (such as miscanthus) you can actually have atmospheric scrubbing of CO2 -- miscanthus extracts and fixes the CO2 from the atmosphere, it's burn in the powerplant and the co2 is pumped back down into the earth in the sequestration vaults. Not that they're designing for this, as far as I know. Very Star Trek though! You also need to determine what type of pollution you want to combat: smog actually offsets global warming by causing global dimmming (less sunlight reaches the surface of the earth -- the smog shades us. This was discovered in the US in the days after 911 when the airlines were grounded). So smog keeps the earth cooler (good) and is bad for humans (could also be considered good, if you're earth-centric and not human-centric). Commute suck? Twike it; You'll like it!
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